Dana Steiner , LCPC

Dana Steiner is an Illinois-licensed therapist with 26 years of clinical experience. She holds the LCPC credential, works with individuals and couples, and focuses on relationship and women's issues alongside mood, stress, and life transitions. Dana uses straightforward feedback and a conversational style to tailor care to each person.

Dana frames sessions around practical skills and clear goals. She listens carefully and offers direct, compassionate feedback when helpful. That give-and-take helps shape a plan that fits the client’s life and concerns. Her manner aims to build trust and make problems easier to approach.

Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and graduate study completed in Chicago. Dana completed the requirements to practice independently in Illinois five years after graduate school. She has taught and supervised other counselors and has been recognized by professional groups for her contributions.

Dana works with many concerns that commonly affect women, including eating and body-image issues, grief, parenting strain, and intimate relationship problems. She also helps people cope with chronic illness, career stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Her experience includes work with addiction, trauma, and caregiver stress.

In session she blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness practices, and relationship-focused methods. She encourages clients to try skills between sessions and to give feedback about what helps. That collaborative rhythm guides treatment and steady progress.

How Dana's Approaches Work Online

Client-centered work focuses on the person's goals and experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns back, and helps people find what feels most useful in daily life. This approach suits relationship questions, life transitions, and self-esteem work.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks concerns into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include clear exercises and experiments to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and behavior patterns linked to eating or sleep problems.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes attention to mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT tools can be useful for coping with strong feelings, impulsive behavior, and interpersonal conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That can mean trying one approach or combining parts of different methods as progress unfolds.

Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth talks and skill teaching, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or between-session coaching. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.